If Adam and Eve only had Cain and Abel, who did Cain and Abel have children with? Who were their wives?

Question

I don't see any other reference to girl children and even if Adam and Eve had girls, surely their brothers wouldn't have had children with them? So where did the rest of the generations come from?
Apologies in advance if this offends any Bible studiers but it is a valid question and I am genuinely interested in the answer.

Answer 1

no, no, is a good valid question.
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Answer 2

Actually, Adam and Eve had a lot more children than just Abel and Cain. Can and Abel however are the only ones that were necessary for discussion on. There story was the one that Moses decided to write about, throuh the aid of God - afterall it is scriture.

If you look at Gnostic writing, for example Jubilee's account, we see many children, probably close to a hundred. People during this time were not the same people now. Whereas they lived for hundreds of years, we can only manage to go about 70-74.

So based on Gnostic writing and history, and common since, Adam and Eve had to have more than just two children. They also had to have daughters. Just because the Bible doesn't say something, doesn't mean it's invalid, but whatever the Bible does say, we can know that it is the truth.

Answer 3

Their sister were their wives. It is simple as that. If you take the bible literally, then that means only Adam and Eve could produce offspring. The bible I think omitted this part about the daughters but they didn't say that Cain and Abel were the only children they have. Cain married his wife and had a lot of children, that was his sister. We come from incest and are all related. Isn't that nice to know? Unless, if you take the bible figuratively (I do) and realize that God might have created more humans via evolution. Then this people set up towns far away from Adam and Eve. Then Cain just married woman he met and we don't come from incest. You choose what version you want to believe.

Answer 4

This is a good question, but your still looking at it though the eyes of the bible, here is something to think about, try and think what it would be like in time when man did not understand how the body works, how life works, how would you explain to someone that we came from millions of orgasms that were just mixing and making more, why not call the first two Adam and Eve, and then say, they had children and so on. People would understand, this would also put the Adam and Eve story and Evolution together, which ever way you want to look at it everybody had sex with each other

Love and Peace

Answer 5

You've already been directed to Genesis chapter 5 verses 1-5 where Seth and "other sons and DAUGHTERS" are mentioned during Adam's 930 years of life. One point nobody has picked up on, though, is that Adam and Eve were created physically perfect. That fact completely alters the issue of genetic defects. It just wasn't a problem back then! Only after many generation of inter-breeding did problems start to manifest. That's why God never forbade close marriages at the start.

So Cain married one of his sisters. He'd murdered his brother Abel without any mention of Abel marrying and having offspring. We have to stop reading the ancient texts from our modern-day persepective. Hope that helps, and that you persevere in asking questions and finding answers. God bless.

Answer 6

Adam and Eve had sons and daughters. In those days it was quite alright to marry your sibling as the genetics were pure without defects that appear today. Even Abraham married his half sister Sarah.
Remember Adam and Eve lived for a long time.

Follow the link in Sir J's answer. It goes to Answers in Genesis magazine - 'a Christ-centred evangelistic ministry upholding the authority of the Bible from the very first verse'
I have been reading this magazine for many years
It explains many things about how God created the world.

Answer 7

The bible does say that Adam and eve had sons and daughters. People need to look at the book of genesis as a text that is edited for time.

It is a re-telling of what some feel is the truth about the genesis(origins) of life and humanity.

The person who wrote it had to be inteeligent enough to compile something like that, even if it were fake. So they probably would have used a little common sense to know how life came about.

What do the evolutionist say about how life came about.

Is their THEORY realistic?

Answer 8

This question has been answered a myriad of times.
There are other children mentioned in the book of Genesis.
The story of Adam and Eve is a morality story emphasising the nature of humans to do the wrong thing when given a choice. The story is not a scientific analysis of how humans evolved.

Answer 9

Back in the day there was no law that said a man could not marry his sister. That is a law imposed by man in this day and age based on science that says more defects can occur if a man marries his sister. But when Adam and Eve were around this was not a problem. It was our original sin that cast us out, causing us to develop "knowledge" that led us to ideas like if we marry our brother then we might have birth defects in the baby. It is human to say "who would want a baby with defects" although it is by God's hands that people with birth defects all throughout the Bible were the people chosen by God to do his work.

Answer 10

This is the question that always clears the Jehovah's Witnesses from the door. I agree with you totally. But a Bible studier will tell you that Adam & Eve went on to bear many children, and this is how they produced offspring. So is it right to commit Insess ? According to the Bible it is. Personally i dont belive in the bible but thats my own choice.

Answer 11

Cain killed Abel, and so there was only Cain looking for a wife. He probably found a female monkey.
Believe and do not question, as it says in the Good Book.